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“'Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?'”

Francine du Plessix Gray,

in The New York Times (1977)

“In a world more and more polluted by the lying of politicians and the illusions of the media, I occasionally crave to hear and tell the truth. To borrow a beautiful phrase from Friedrich Nietzche, I look upon my friend as 'the beautiful enemy' who alone is able to offer me total candor. Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy.”

Francine du Plessix Gray,

in Vogue (1978)

“The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.”

Francine du Plessix Gray,

in Mademoiselle (1981)

“Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.”